[CentOS] Power-outage

Fri Jul 1 14:28:21 UTC 2011
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> Colin Coles wrote:
>> On Friday 01 July 2011 12:05, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>> Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
>>
>> If you are thinking of the UPS route a caveat: I have several HP servers
>> and most of them will not work on cheap UPS's as they do not produce the
>> pure sine wave modern HP machines require but rather a crude stepped
>> voltage.
>
> perhaps naively, I'm surprised: doesn't this mean they put crappy PSUs
> in those servers?
> I thought decent PSUs were expected to deal with dirty input AC?

I agree. Esp. since, other than in datacenters, *most* electric power is
pretty crappy.

        mark "let's not discuss ComEd in Chicago"